November 25, 1905

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Features

Turbine Troubles

Modern Preservation of Railroad Ties

Eye Sight Test for Railroad Men

Robert Whitehead and the Torpedo

Frederic H. Betts

Fun with the Phonograph

By Dexter W. Allis

A New Type of Ore-Unloading Bucket

By W. Frank M'clure

An Automatic Cartridge-Counter for Magazine Rifles

By Alfred Gradenwitz

A Storage-Battery Locomotive

By The English Correspondent Of The Scientific American

A New Megaphone

By Alfred Gradenwitz

The Orinoco--A Wasted Waterway

By G. L. M. Brown

Extraordinary Effect of Water Erosion Caused by the Assouan Dam

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

The Felling of the Concrete Column at Niagara

By Orrin E. Dunlap

Machine for Molding Plastic Materials

Quartz Mill for Dry-Grinding of Ore

An Improved Bottle Closure

Patent Department

Business and Personal Wants

Departments

Departments

Correspondence - November 25, 1905

Recently Patented Inventions - November 25, 1905

Index of Inventions - November 25, 1905

New Books, Etc. - November 25, 1905

Notes and Queries - November 25, 1905

Patents - November 25, 1905

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